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For instance, in the skull rostral refers to proximity to the front of the nose and is primarily used when describing the skull's position, especially in comparison to other animals. [2]: 4 Similarly, in the arms, different terms help clarify the "front", "back", "inner" and "outer" surfaces. For example:
For example, to describe the human brain, "rostral" still means "towards the beak or snout (Latin rostrum)", or at any rate, the interior of the cranial cavity just behind the face. "Caudal" means "towards the tail (Latin cauda "), but not "towards the back of the cranial cavity", which is "posterior" (behind, in ordinary motion).
Rostral (from Latin rostrum 'beak, nose') describes something situated toward the oral or nasal region, or in the case of the brain, toward the tip of the frontal lobe. [ 39 ] Cranial (from Greek κρανίον 'skull') or cephalic (from Greek κεφαλή 'head') describes how close something is to the head of an organism.
In animals that move without use of limbs, the most common feature of the locomotion is a rostral to caudal wave that travels down their body. However, this pattern can change based on the particular undulating animal, the environment, and the metric in which the animal is optimizing (i.e. speed, energy, etc.).
The rostral organ of the coelacanth or similar in many other fish such as Anchovy is a large gel-filled cavity in the snout, with three pairs of canals to the outside. [ 1 ] It is surrounded by an insulating layer of adipose tissue and innervated by the superficial ophthalmic nerve .
The shield-nosed cobra (genus Aspidelaps) has a greatly enlarged rostral scale. The rostral scale, or rostral, in snakes and other scaled reptiles is the median plate on the tip of the snout that borders the mouth opening. [1] It corresponds to the mental scale in the lower jaw. The term pertains to the rostrum, or nose.
[2] Among insects, the rostrum is the name for the piercing mouthparts of the order Hemiptera as well as those of the snow scorpionflies, among many others. The long snout of weevils is also called a rostrum. [3] Gastropod molluscs have a rostrum or proboscis. [4] Cephalopod molluscs have hard beak-like mouthparts referred to as the rostrum. [5]